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In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...

In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Polybus, and his queen, Merope. After he is grown, Oedipus is told by a drunken man at a banquet that he really isnt the son of Po...

In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...

In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...

In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...

In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...

In five pages the tales of Oedipus and Jason are analyzed in terms of the differences and similarities that exist between them. T...

In a paper consisting of five pages the Book of Job is compared with Oedipus the King in terms of such issues as free will. There...

In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...

nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...

difference between the two representations. When one is cast forward by way of determinism, it is as though one has absolutely no...

in this work goes into the Great Families of Mythology and provides information on The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes,...

who had nothing to do with the death of his father. When Hamlet does figure out what is right for him, in terms of addressing the ...

The audience sees Oedipus to be a good and caring King, one who has a grasp of right and wrong. Oedipus is also shown to be a bit ...

is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...